Etiquette - March 2007

in the middle of a conversation, this co-worker , who is engaged, got close to my face, asked if I was wearing lipstick, then he said something about me biting off his ''thing" he does tend to joke like that..(i have thick lips) what could he have ment by that?

2007-03-04 15:34:46 · 9 answers · asked by amanda 1

from having a real conversation with somebody in public?

So many feel it's wrong for others to chat on their cells at ANY time. They think it's ok to tell others to turn off their phones or to go away or give them dirty looks. They would not act that way if the person were chatting next to a live person instead. Is it open season now on anybody with a cell phone?
I'm NOT referring to people who use their cells in places where it would not be ordinarily allowable to have normal conversations (i.e. church, library, theater, etc.) I am NOT referring to people who use their cells in voices louder than a normal conversation. Nor am I talking about neglecting a live person to take a cell call. I can see how that could be annoying.
I AM talking about what is wrong with sitting in a restaurant, bar,store, bus, etc. using the same volume one would use if they were talking to somebody else sitting there? Is it because the eavesdroppers cannot hear the other side of the conversation?

2007-03-04 14:55:41 · 8 answers · asked by julie j 6

I'm just wondering....because i get all sorts of people asking me questions when i'm with a customer....and sometimes when i'm trying to count out change. And some even interrupt me when i'm trying to ask the customer i'm with a question....why do people do this? are they to much on themselves and think the world revolves around them?

2007-03-04 14:43:44 · 9 answers · asked by ♥Brown Eyed Girl ♥ 5

your ex posted you on a website for cheaters and then e-mailed people you knew and told them about it, keyed your car, changed the password on your e-mail account and sent out damaging e-mails as you then disabled the account, posted your phone numbers on the internet, scratched your cd's beyond repair, called you repeatedly just to taunt you, and texted you repeatedly? Just curious.

2007-03-04 13:38:03 · 12 answers · asked by ♥BlackGirlLost♥ 2

I am going to Flordia on my spring break this year. I am 15 and I am staying with my uncle and his partner, he is gay. I have talked with them a lot on the phone and I know them pretty well, but I usually only see them once every couple of years. So when we do talk it's akward. I am a little concerened about being the only girl in a house with 2 gay men. I am not worried about them being gay, quite honestly their sex life is not my business. Also they have a room mate that is an older straight male. Has anyone here been in a similair situation and does anyone have any tips on things I should or should not do while I am staying there? Don't get me wrong, I love them, I just don't want things to be akward and I don't want to look stupid.
Thanks for your help in advance.

2007-03-04 13:23:13 · 4 answers · asked by I'm here for now 3

even if they are complete b`stards?

i luv you,alll

xxx

2007-03-04 13:15:26 · 23 answers · asked by qwerty 3

I mean, geeze. Some people ask stupid, dumb, stereotypical, etc. questions just to tick people off. Why take them personally and be rude when you answer them? Just curious

2007-03-04 13:08:33 · 5 answers · asked by Crystal Rene 2

If you meet someone and you dont know that person but that person calls you "prude" !!

How would you reply to that?

2007-03-04 12:57:50 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

This might sound stupid but I have to go to a funeral and I don't know what to do! I have not been to a funeral since I was a kid, but now that I am an adult I don't know what to do/what to say/how to act when I get there. The family is Catholic but I do not practice any religion so I'm not sure if there are any traditions I should know about.

2007-03-04 12:55:01 · 12 answers · asked by Nicole 3

2007-03-04 12:36:30 · 10 answers · asked by ( Put Name Here ) 1

2007-03-04 12:33:10 · 10 answers · asked by Monkeydad 2

This happend to me last week and I just left it and hoped someone else would take care of it.

2007-03-04 12:14:16 · 24 answers · asked by nike3144 1

im confused, so what is it.

2007-03-04 12:03:13 · 4 answers · asked by SpaceMonkey! 2

2007-03-04 11:29:47 · 25 answers · asked by hello world 7

..like the super bowl coaches, Speaker of the House, and various awards at ceremonies for “specific” groups?

First, I’m in no way a biased person. I have open relationships with all manors of people and often do not even notice the ethnic background of people until it is highlighted by someone else. This is simply an opinion and is open for debate. Take it or leave it, I believe it to be true and hope that it will stimulate discussion on the topic. I welcome discussion and hope that you do to.

I am so fed up with people who just love re-hashing, re-invigorating, and re-living (vicariously?) the past injustices experienced by others many, many years ago. Do we really need to continuously be reminded of these things? Do we really gain more than we lose by doing so? I say an emphatic No, and here are a few of my thoughts on the subject:

I’m fed up with those who would have us believe that having the first African American coach win the super bowl is something to be celebrated. Who cares? Seriously, are we to be expected to have the same “glorious joy” when the first Chinese American coach wins? How about the first Latino American coach? What if it was a women (holy crap did he just say that? Yes I did)? How about just not giving a crap about what race the coach of a team is? Does it somehow become more of a landmark event or elevate the status of what is, in reality, just a game anyway? Along the same lines, drawing attention to the first female Speaker of the House is just as ridiculous. I couldn’t care less. Does it somehow add something to the event? I say No, No, and No again. Before certain people decided to start making a big deal of it I was completely unaware that it was “the first” African American coach to win the Super Bowl but, of course, it had to be “highlighted”. If it could have just gone “Unsaid” it would have actually meant “MORE” as far as overcoming past discrimination than it did by being brought up “”AGAIN””. How about just having “The Achievement Awards” to recognize all people? Highlighting individual (race/Sex/whatever) awards only perpetuates segregationist views.

If you think it’s necessary to highlight the achievements of “a people” who were somehow wronged in the past then I say you are just part of “the problem” (yes, the problem). It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about African Americans, American Indians, Japanese Americans, Irish Americans, Women, etc., etc. The more often we bring it up the less likely it is that we will ever be able to co-exist in a completely unbiased state of harmony. By the way, just when was the last time you saw an Irish American being highlighted for being the first of their kind to do (insert anything here)? No, I don’t actually think the Irish were “wronged” as much as the Africans who were brought here as slaves but they were “wronged” none the less during their first years in America. I’m also pretty sure the Japanese who were put in camps during the war feel “wronged” as well but I sure don’t see a big deal being made about each new accomplishment a Japanese American has. Why don’t African, Japanese or Irish Americans have special Casinos or fishing rights like Native Americans? Why don’t Native Americans, Japanese or the Irish, have their own versions of the NAACP, or “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” commercials? The answer is that you can’t please all of the people all of the time and “some” people will never feel “compensated” (no matter what is offered) for wrongs that were, for the most part, committed against someone other than themselves many generations ago.

In a way it’s like blackmail, consider the following: Person A has something (a picture, for example) against person B and, at some point, decides to play his/her “card” and demand a “payment” ($50K, for example), for it. Three months later person A demands another “payment”, then another, and yet another, seemingly never being satisfied that the payment was “enough”. Similarly, the Native American, Female, Black, etc. “card” seems to get pulled at various times when members of those groups think it can be used to their own benefit to get “payment” from someone (typically the Government). These groups perpetually ask for under the premise that their groups have not been given “enough”. This begs the question; when is it “enough”?

For example, just the other day I saw the “inequality card” being played for a topic I’ve seen repeatedly. The argument is that “there just aren’t enough Black CEO’s in fortune 500 companies to show diversification”. Incidentally, I’ve heard the exact same quote with reference to Women and more recently, with regard to Latinos as well. Oddly enough, I haven’t heard it used in regard to the Irish or Japanese though, how strange. It would be very interesting to follow these groups into the future and see if they would raise the same arguments “in reverse”. Specifically, if and when their “group of people” (Black, Women, Latino, etc.) became the majority of all CEO’s, would they argue that for “diversification purposes” there needs to be less of “their own group” and more of the “other groups” as CEO’s? I doubt it.

In my opinion, the best way to get past the racial, gender, and (insert any other topic you can come up with) discrimination is to just stop bringing it up so much. While we’re at we should get rid of separate associations, foundations, etc. as well as those special rules for some businesses (casinos for example) based solely on Race. These types of “Segregated associations and Special Rules” only serve to perpetuate the very things they are intended to overcome.

I agree with, and understand, the point that we have to remember the past in order to learn from our mistakes as it pertains to everything from human injustice to war miscalculation but, in my opinion, until we get to the point where we don’t make a special effort to highlighting the first “(insert group of people here) to do “whatever”, we will never be an unbiased society and never “get past” “our past”. Let’s get over it.

2007-03-04 11:25:38 · 5 answers · asked by Point of View 1

2007-03-04 11:21:57 · 10 answers · asked by Toilet 2

2007-03-04 11:13:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was going down the freeway and people were honking at me and giving me the finger.

I was pushing the shopping cart as fast as I could.

2007-03-04 10:47:20 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

They're clean, but obviously pajamas. The pants are purple with little doggies on them. I'm just hungry and lazy.

On a side note, what about the grocery store? It's closer and fewer people will be there.

2007-03-04 10:42:54 · 20 answers · asked by Effraye 3

I am a telemarketer. So, if people DON'T like us, then why do you have to go and make it even MORE frustrating on yourselves? For example, when calling, you could at LEAST pick up the phone and say 'hello". When you pick up the phone and say NOTHING, well..guess what? we gotta call you back. When we call, and you so rudely interrupt us and cut us off, say "not interested" and hang up..well, guess what? We didn't tell you our reason for caling, so we gotta call you back. When you say "put me on the do not call list" and then hang up without letting us verify your number, guess what? We CALL YOU BACK!! So, why can't people just let us do our little spiel, let us FINISH, say you're not interested, let us say "thank you for your time" and hang up? Is it really that hard?

2007-03-04 10:38:54 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

Didn't really know her, only spoke about twice a month, but she was a great neighbor & wanna "wish her well". Dont know what her decor will be (buying all new), doesn't cook, any suggestions?

2007-03-04 10:26:48 · 7 answers · asked by Freakgirl 7

2007-03-04 09:49:23 · 13 answers · asked by lsm 1

What's the most diplomatic and quick way to keep the phone? This guy doesn't even have a full stop between his statements.

2007-03-04 09:39:15 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

written about them?

I Just often wonder when i see "Positives" that are brief or short, and that focus mainly on the transaction, like "Fast Shipping." or simply, "Great." or "Thanks." I wonder if they gave the seller a "Positive" in order not to have their OWN reputations marred by the inevitable negative response, but are in fact angry b/c the product is not up to par, and this short reply is their silent way of showing it. lol.

Anyway, do you think buyers OFTEN give false positives for this reason, or am I just projecting what I'm thinking of doing myself?

2007-03-04 09:32:10 · 6 answers · asked by melon_rose 2

Instead of "This is dept xyz, abc speaking, how can I help you today, may I have your name please?"

It's soo annoying to listen to and almost makes me want to hang up.

2007-03-04 09:23:55 · 8 answers · asked by blue_rose_69 1

2007-03-04 09:09:24 · 5 answers · asked by candii c 1

2007-03-04 09:03:33 · 4 answers · asked by aksandhu_83 1

2007-03-04 08:59:35 · 6 answers · asked by broken heart 2

good ol bob looks like a nerd what do you think of bob be nice

2007-03-04 08:43:12 · 6 answers · asked by Raymond B 4

2007-03-04 08:42:17 · 5 answers · asked by Niceyguy 2